Dinosaur death helped spread grapes, reveal 60-million-year-old seeds

The extinction of dinosaurs could have paved the way for the spread of grapes. Paleontologists at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History discovered ancient grape seed fossils — ranging between 60 to 19 million years — from the rocks of the Colombian Andes. Through these super-old fossils, the team identified nine new species of ancient grapes from Colombia, Panama, and Perú. “This discovery is important because it shows that after the extinction of the dinosaurs, grapes really started to spread …